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Perhaps while driving down highway 61 you’ve noticed the dark steamboat gothic style home sitting on a hill looking over the Mississippi River. Wel...
- Added: Oct 23, 2010
- Length: 13:10
The Battle of Sugar Point on Leech Lake: northern MN historian, Cecelia McKeig, talks about the causes of the last 19th century armed conflict betw...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Oct 11, 2010
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 2
On today's show I talk with Dr. Louis Hyman, an expert in the history of debt. Not only was it great talking with him but we chatted just as long o...
- Added: Oct 08, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
On December 25, 1776, George Washington crossed the Delaware River in what has become one of history’s most famous boat rides! Listen in moment bef...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
What was Sameul F.B. Morse like as a teenager? Find out in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
General George Armstrong Custer made his last stand at Little Big Horn. I this episode of Did This Happen? we hear the moments leading up to that f...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave his, now famous, Gettysburg Address. We take you to the moments before the president took the ...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
Everyone’s heard Neil Armstrong’s famous words as he set foot on the moon, but what happened in the moments after that? Find out in this episode of...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
Hannibal is credited as being one of the most talented military commanders of all time. Listen in as he ‘thinks outside the box’ while planning his...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
Micahelangelo spent 4 years painting the incredible Sistine Chapel. Hear the moments immediately following the completion of the painting in this e...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
In this episode of Did This Happen?, we take you to the workshop of Alexander Graham Bell moments after the very first telephone call!
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
The Titanic was built to be unsinkable. But it sunk. Researchers may never fully know all the events surrounding the big ship’s demise. We take a l...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
George Washington Carver was an inventor whose list of inventions is astounding. Did This Happen takes you to Dr. Carver’s lab as he’s about to deb...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
Genghis Kahn was the mighty emperor of the Mongol Empire. He was feared far and wide.Did This Happen? takes you to the moments before Kahn and his ...
- Added: Oct 04, 2010
- Length: 01:00
The first prom in the history of a small isolated Arctic town in Nunavut, northern Canada. 'Polar Prom' won a Bronze Medal at the 2010 New York Fes...
Bought by WRPI and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 21:59
- Purchases: 2
In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER and more
- Added: Sep 07, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 26
One Czech high school teaches students what it was like to live under a communist regime.
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 2
Pat & Bob discuss painting their kitchen and Bob's hand made cabinets. Bob's out on the job site talking about how to cost effectively equip a wood...
- Added: Jul 21, 2010
- Length: 58:57
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum located in St. Cloud. This report happens o...
- Added: Jun 10, 2010
- Length: 27:41
This show's main topic is the part that German immigrants played in the formation of the United States. We hear about General von Stueben who kicke...
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Why Science and society today are still wrestling with Darwin's big idea.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 07, 2010
- Length: 53:47
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 06, 2010
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 08:54
Wanda Hoyum, the Director of the Beltrami County Historical Society, talked about the history of Lake Julia Sanatorium.
- Added: Apr 08, 2010
- Length: 12:49
We talk with Brian Vroman, Philosophy Instructor at Itasca Community College, about the history Ku Klux Klan in Itasca County in the 1920s.
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 08:46
